HAWK TALK Surviving the (Holiday) Experience

Published: Nov. 29, 2020, 11:29 p.m.

This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode.\xa0This time, we talked about holidays, winter and otherwise.\n\n\n\nTopics, roughly:\n\n \tTime, which used to make sense\n \tSeveral holidays and feelings, media, and traditions related thereto\n \tFlash Gordon\n \tMixed-faith families\n \tA New York Christmas Wedding (the lesbian time travel gay dead baby angel movie)\n \tGingerbread\n \tSecular rituals\n \tNight in the Woods: Lost Constellation\n \tThe Dark is Rising (again)\n \tThe Spirit of Christmas (which is to say, exploding)\n \tJ. Michael Strazynski's The Real Ghostbusters\n \tCommunity's first three holiday specials\n \tJustice League: Comfort & Joy\n \tPassover and that time Moses gave Pharaoh a frog\n \tPassover and Miles trying very hard to play it cool\n \tChocolate bunny funerals\n \tEaster basket comics\n \tBeing excellent to each other and partying on\n\nLinks and further reading:\n\n \tIn Defense of Humbug by Jay Smooth